SAQA Ohio Member Beth Schillig Wins AQS Contest

Beth Schillig (Columbus, Ohio) was a winner in the recent Mystery Quilt Contest sponsored by the American Quilt Society. The contest began in the September 2010 issue of American Quilter Magazine and started with 7-8" square focus blocks. Beth used a picture of a sunrise over Lake Erie in Marblehead, Ohio and ran it through the Kaleidoscope Kreator Program. She used batiks from her stash, followed the remaining instructions in future magazine issues, and created, " A MORNING IN MARBLEHEAD." You can view this beautiful quilt in the May issue of American Quilter Magazine, or on their blog at http://americanquiltermagazine.blogspot.com/ then scroll down to the March 14, 2011 post, or view closeups on Beth's website, www.bethschillig.com. Congratulations on this national recognition Beth!

Art Quilt Events Around Ohio

May 27 - September 5, 2011 Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Art Center, 8000 Dairy Lane, Athens, Ohio 45701. www.dairybarn.org/quilt

May 5 - July 10, 2011, The Ohio Art Council presents, Happiness, The Riffe Center, downtown
Columbus.

May 14 - July 14, 2011, Superlatives, The Zanesville Art Museum featuring SAQA members, Deb Anderson and Sue Cavanaugh, as well as Sandra Ciolino, Rebecca Cross, Nancy Crow, Linda French and June O'Neil who will either be demonstrating or speaking about their art.

May 6 -June24, 2011, The Ohio Art League Show, The Main Columbus Public Library, open during library hours, features a work by SAQA Ohio Member, Deborah Anderson.

Surface Design Newsletter
SAQA Ohio Members may be interested in viewing the Surface Design Newsletter to find out information about events and artists involved in that organization. The newsletter may be found at www.surfacedesign.org.

Call for Entry Taiwan Show
SAQA Members have and opportunity to show their work in an exceptional exhibition in Taiwan in 2012. Taiwan representative, Hsin-Chen Lin, is also the president of TIQE, and the first festival she organized in 2009 was wonderful. The exhibition was very well received and the catalog is gorgeous. The 2012 exhibition will be from August to July and the theme is Moving Water and Rivers, with and emphasis on the life-giving and precious nature of water on earth and the crucial environmental relationship we have with water.

Water and river are full of life and nutrient: novelty, freshness, and sustainability symbolize a source of vitality, expecting to convey an energetic, broad, and microcosmic angle of view, as well as each kind of life and existence that water and river embrace.

The prospectus and entry form will be posted on the SAQA website.

SAQA Ohio Members Juried into Prestigious Exhibitions

SAQA Ohio Member Debra Bentley of Xenia, Ohio has had her work, JUNE'S DEMENTIA - A LIFE UNRAVELED juried into the prestigious Sacred Threads exhibition taking place in Washington DC from June 22 to July 4, 2011. This is a very special quilt, honoring the life of her mother.

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June's Dementia - A Life Unraveled

detail - June's Dementia - A life Unraveled

The work of SAQA Ohio member, Kris Worthington, was juried into The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Show, Best of 2011. The show takes place from May 1, 2011 to June 15, 2011 at The Ohio Designer Craftsmen building at 1665 West Fifth Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43212. phone 614- 486-7119. Kris' work may be viewed on her website www.artisticallybent.com. Congratulation to both of these amazing artists!

OTHER NEWS

SAQA Ohio Cincinnati Parlour Meeting Saturday June 18, 2011

SAQA Ohio member, Carole Staples, will be hosting a Parlour Meeting for SAQA Ohio members at the West Chester Library, 9363 Centre Point Drive, West Chester, Ohio 45069, phone 513-777-3131. The event will take place from 11 AM to 3 PM. To date, the agenda will include a presentation on the SAQA Visioning Conference, a Show and Tell Session, a quilt swap, and tentatively scheduled is the unveiling of The SAQA Trunk Show exhibition.

Members may bring guests, but seating is limited to 50 so please make a reservation with Carole at cg_staples@hotmail.com to reserve a seat. Attendees are asked to bring a food item to share for a potluck luncheon, examples of their work to share with the group, and a 5" x 7" mini quilt that somehow incorporates a symbol of friendship to swap.

Carole Staples work is fantastic. If you are not familiar with her art, check it out at www.mivadesigns.com.

I hope you will support our members and enjoy the SAQA events being planned for Ohio SAQA members. More events are in the works. If you would like to host a parlour meeting, have questions, concerns, comments, or news, please contact me.

Sue King, Ohio SAQA Rep.

sking@SueKingArts

www.SueKingArts.com

www.SueKingArts.blogspot.com

Ann Rebele to Exhibit in Coshocton

It seems that Ohio is the place to be this year if you have an interest in textiles.

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The work of SAQA Ohio member, Ann Rebele, will be included in PUSHING THE SURFACE 2011, which will take place at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Coschocton, Ohio. The exhibition runs from May 21 - August 7, 2011 with the Artist's Reception occurring on May 20th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The Museum is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

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The Crooked River Fiber Fling is set to to take place in Peninsula, Ohio from August 4-7, 2011. This event will include classes and workshops on weaving, knitting, traditional basketry, quilting with metal and fiber, marbling on cloth and beginning spinning. There will also be a wearable art fashion show, boutique and vendor booths, children's events and animal tents featuring llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats and rabbits. For an additional thrill, visitors can arrive at the event by riding the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, which will have a special car dedicated to demonstrating fiber art techniques. Check out the websites: http://www.fibercafe.org/ or http://www.peninsulaartacademy.com/ for more details. The contact person for the event is Bonnie Victor, available at bonnievictor@hotmail.com.

Art Quilt Events in Zanesville

The Zanesville Museum of Art proudly announces several art quilt events to be held at the museum beginning in May 2011. ART WATCH takes place on Saturday, May 14 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Quilts, demonstrations, and talks by Ohio quilters: Deborah Melton Anderson, Sue Cavanaugh, Sandra Ciolino, Rebecca Cross, Nancy Crow, Linda French and June O'Neil will take place at this FREE event. This is the second in a series of four unique Arts Alive Art Watch events funded by PNC Arts Alive.

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Superlatives: Contemporary Ohio Quilts will also be featured at the Zanesville Museum of Art. This event will feature six acclaimed Ohio artists and will be on exhibition from May 14 through July 14, 2011.

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Zanesville Museum of Art, 740-452-0741 or www.zanesvilleart.org

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SAQA Ohio members interested in attending this event as a group should contact Sue King at 740-687-6208 or sKing@SueKingArts.com Please note that Sue Cavanaugh and Deborah Melton Anderson are both SAQA Ohio members. Let's give them our support.

IQF Cinncinati 2011 and Other Breaking News

The International Quilt Festival changed venues this year, moving from Chicago to Cincinnati. From all accounts, it was quite a success. SAQA was well represented with two exhibitions: Creative Force and Sightlines, which featured SAQA Ohio member, Shelley Brenner Baird's work, Seeing Around Corners. In addition, Susan Shie, SAQA Ohio member, had a solo exhibition of her distinctive and world renown work. Carole Staples, another of our Ohio members also had a booth, selling her fabulous textile art. Way to go Carole!

Daren Redman, SAQA Indiana Rep and Nysha Nelson, SAQA TN/ KY Rep

SAQA Ohio members were extremely well represented among the volunteers that manned the booth for the four days of the show and included: Dr. Mazloomi, Terry Ann Hartzell, Mindy Marik, Barb Sferra, Martha Warsaw, Carol Staples, Maxine Thomas, Lisa Quintana, Shelly Brenner Baird, Linda Witte Henke and Sue King. A great big thank you to all of you for your hard work in making the show a successful one for our organization.

Terry Ann Hartzell in SAQA Booth

Many other members stopped by to say hello. In addition to our members, the booth was graced with visits from some pretty important members of the art quilt community including Pokey Bolton from Quilting Arts Magazine, Susan Shie, Jamie Fingal and Cheryl Ferrin, SAQA Marketing Director, who lent her technical expertise and support throughout the show. She even hosted a party in her room on Saturday night.

SAQA 2011 Auction Quilt

During the show SAQA sold a total of $ 4846.00 in merchandise and memberships and helped to educate the public about art quilts and the SAQA mission. A total of 27 new members joined our organization and 12 of these are from Ohio, so our membership role is growing.

2011 SAQA Auction Quilt

SAQA OHIO Members Invited to Open Studio

Shelley Brenner Baird, SAQA Ohio member and featured artist in Quilting Arts Magazine and SAQA's Sightlines Exhibition, will be hosting an open studio in her home for SAQA Ohio members on Saturday April 30, 2011. The event will take place in Columbus, Ohio from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Members are asked to bring snacks or drinks to share with other attendees. Shelley's entire home is her studio and members will be able to learn about her surface design and quilting techniques. Please RSVP to Sue King at sKing@SueKingArts.com. You will not want to miss this opportunity to learn about Shelley's textile art career and mingle with other SAQA members.

Shelley Brenner Baird

Now Showing....

Take note of the following opportunities to view Art Quilts in Ohio.

Diane Eyerman has a solo exhibition of her quilts on display at the Ohio Department of Mental Health on the 8th floor of the Rhoades Tower in downtown Columbus.

Sue King is exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition at Stuart's Opera House on the Square in Nelsonville, Ohio until April 25th, 2011.

Grapes of Wrath: Jackson, Ohio, 1936

The International Quilt Festival opens April 7 through the 10th at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio located at 525 Elm Street. Stop by and see us at the SAQA Ohio booth located near the SAQA Creative Force and Sightlines exhibitions, featuring our own SAQA Ohio member, Shelley Brenner Baird. A great big thank you to all of our SAQA Ohio members that volunteered to staff our booth: Dr. Mazloomi, Terry Ann Hartzell, Shelley Brenner Baird, Mindy Marik, Barbara Sferra, Martha Warsaw, Sue King, Carole Staples, Lisa Quintana, Linda Henke and Maxine Thomas. Stop by to say hello and meet your fellow members. See you there.

Paula Nadelstern Exhibition Coming to Ohio

Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern will be on exhibition at the Akron Art Museum, Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries, from June 18, 2011 to October 2, 2011. The museum is located at One South High, Akron Ohio 44308.

For internationally renowned quiltmaker Paula Nadelstern the word kaleidoscope"promises surprise and magic, change and chance." Nadeslstern (born 1951) has spent over two decades capturing in cloth the excitement of the ever-changing relationships of color, pattern, light and texture of kaleidoscope images.

Nadelstern's dazzling quilts employ crystalline patterns composed of painstakingly assembled slivers of jewel-like fabrics. Her creations encompass science, history and artistic tradition, This exhibition places the artist's quilts within a historical context for the first time, exploring the kaleidoscope's impact on the decorative arts, including quilts, and the intimate relationship between Nadelstern's quilts and the art of the contemporary kaleidoscope.

The original inspiration for Nadelstern's kaleidoscopic quilts came from the bilateral symmetry of the design on a bolt of Liberty of London fabric. This type of imagery was unimagined before the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1816 by Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster. The device reached American shores by 1818 but not until the 1870s were significant refinements made by Charles G. Bush.

The potential of the kaleidoscope as a design source for decorative applications was immediately recognized and its abstractions had a particularly profound effect on quilt making. In this exhibition an early 19th century star pattern quilt joins 19 contemporary quilts and 12 kaleidoscope quilt blocks by Paula Nadelstern; contemporary kaleidoscopes; and two rare early kaleidoscopes, one patented by Brewster and one by Bush. Akron will be the only Midwest venue for this stunning exhibition.

Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art 0f Paula Nadelstern is organized by the American Folk Art Museum, New York. The tour of the exhibition is supported in part by the Leir Charitble Foundations in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and with public funds from the New York Sate Council on the Art, a state agency.

Its presentation in Akron is made possible by Exclusive Sponsorship gift from the Robert O. & Annamae Orr Family Foundation

Contact Person
Barbara Tannenbaum
Director of Curatorial Affairs
Akron Art Museum